Larry Alex Taunton
American Spectator
Washington, DC, United States
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David French: The ‘Principled Conservative’
David French is typical of a kind of Christian thinking that New York Post opinion editor Sohrab Ahmari calls “French-ism.”... → Read More
The Forgotten Lesson of September 11
It was an eerie scene. But for the activity of the rescue and recovery personnel and the rumbling machinery they... → Read More
Father of the Bride ... and a Groom
Lord, have mercy on me. I stood at the back of the aisle in our improvised outdoor chapel on this... → Read More
Trumpism: The Elite’s Favorite Bogeyman
What is Trumpism? A political philosophy? Love of America and the Constitution that has served to govern it? An economic... → Read More
Karl Marx and Charles Spurgeon’s Epic Struggle for Souls
There are two gravesites I have made a habit of visiting whenever I am in London. The first lies in... → Read More
Richard Dawkins Is Right
Note to reader: I submitted this article to Richard Dawkins prior to publication. His response: “I read it. Hated it.”... → Read More
The Border Crisis on the Other Side of the Border: A Special Report
To understand the illegal immigration problem on our southern border, we must first understand what is happening in Latin America.... → Read More
The Salt That Has Lost Its Savor: The Woke Church and the Undoing of America
When editors at The American Spectator asked me to write a column for their exceptional magazine about the liberalization of... → Read More
Did Eric Metaxas ‘Sucker Punch’ a Community Volunteer?
I simply can’t believe it. In addition to all the rioting, looting, and destruction of private property there has been... → Read More
Riots, Political Subversion, and the Communist Agitator’s Playbook: A Lesson From History
Historically, Americans have not been very effective in dealing with the radical mindset. Like Neville Chamberlain who really believed the... → Read More
How the Radicalization of Colin Kaepernick Explains the Current American Crisis
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick has become the face of a movement that has filled our streets with protests and... → Read More
A Famine of Truth: Malcolm Muggeridge, George Bernard Shaw, and Journalistic Deception
One of my favorite authors is the late British journalist, intellectual, and cultural critic Malcolm Muggeridge. I was reminded of Muggeridge as I followed competing Iranian protest reports on Twitter a few weeks ago. One narrative claiming that it was... → Read More
Something Wicked This Way Comes
It’s official: America is losing its religion. According to the Pew Forum, Gallup, the General Social Survey, and several other studies in recent years, this downward trajectory in American religious belief has been the trend for decades. But since 2001,... → Read More
WWJD? According to Christianity Today, Jesus Would Vote for Impeachment
As the race for the Oval Office was heating up back in 2012, I published a little column that caught CNN’s attention: “WWJVF: Who Would Jesus Vote For?” I had written it because candidates on all sides — even Obama... → Read More
Google’s Brave New World: Election Tampering Is Real, But the Threat Isn’t Foreign
A generation ago, cultural critic Neil Postman published the clever little book Amusing Ourselves to Death. In it, Postman considers the rival dystopian visions of George Orwell and Aldous Huxley as articulated in their classic novels, 1984 and Brave New World,... → Read More
Are Children ‘Hardwired’ to Believe in God?
University of Oxford developmental psychologist Dr. Olivera Petrovich has spent years researching a single question: Are children predisposed to belief in a transcendent being? This research, much deserving of greater exposure, intrigued me, since I have engaged atheism’s most prominent... → Read More
Baseball, Not Basketball, Is America’s Greatest Sports Ambassador
As the World Series approached a finale, I was in Panama City — the one with the canal, not the popular spring break destination of the same name in the Florida panhandle. With every television in every sports bar or... → Read More
In Defense of Kanye West
Rapper Kanye West’s much-anticipated latest album Jesus Is King dropped yesterday to the howls of critics and, as is to be expected of a medium designed to give electronic voice to the reactionary, social media. But why? Kanye West has... → Read More
Looking for Something Manly to Do?
It was a beautiful Saturday only a couple of weeks ago, and I sat in a foldable camouflage chair, 12 gauge over/under shotgun in hand, beneath the sparse cover of a pine tree. My host, a dozen yards away, sat... → Read More
The Truth About China That LeBron and the NBA Don’t Understand
In 2017, I literally went around the world in 80 days as part of a series I was writing on how the world stacked up against America. Like Phileas Fogg minus the hot air balloon, I visited every continent but... → Read More